… of James Whitmore. The actor, twice nominated for an Oscar, is 83. He was the sole cast member of Give ’em Hell, Harry!.
… of Jimmy Carter. The 39th President is 81 today.
… of Tom Bosley. Richie Cunningham’s father is 78.
… of Julie Andrews. Mary Poppins is 70. Ms. Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar for Mary Poppins; she was nominated for The Sound of Music and Victor/Victoria. Of course, her claim to fame really was as Eliza Doolittle in the stage version of My Fair Lady.
… of Rod Carew. The baseball hall of fame player is 60.
… of Tim O’Brien. The novelist is 59. O’Brien is the author of Going After Cacciato, winner of the 1979 National Book Award in fiction, and The Things They Carried, which was named by The New York Times as one of the ten best books of 1990, received the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award in fiction, and was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In the Lake of the Woods was named by Time as the best novel of 1994. The book also received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was selected as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times.
Chief Justive William Rehnquist would have been 81 today.